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Friends of Public Safety - Vote YES
Why can't I just have a family member drive me to the hospital rather than call an ambulance?
A modern Advanced Life Support ambulance staffed with at least one paramedic can provide life saving care while enroute to the hospital. An ALS ambulance has all the medications that are used in the emergency department. Patients are often stabilized and improving before even arriving at the ED.
ALS providers can read ECG, provide defibrillation, airway management (including invasive surgical procedures), stroke prenotification, and life saving medications that families cannot provide. ALS brings the hospital to you so care starts right away.
For stroke and heart attack, prehospital activation of the cath lab or stroke team significantly reduces door‑to‑treatment times — a benefit lost with private transport. In addition, most hospitals are not equiped to deal with all emergencies. The EMS providers know how to assess you and which hospitals can help. Going to the wrong hospital will just end up with you getting transported by Life Flight or a private ground ambulance to the correct hospital.
Patients who deteriorate en route in a private vehicle will have no clinical support.
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DON'T THINK RESPONSE TIMES MATTER, SEE THE NEST VIDEO IN THE LINK TO THE LEFT.
This is a real fire seen by a NEST camera. This is an actual event that was caught in real time. Note, the time from when the fire starts to when the room is fully engulfed is less than 3 minutes! A new public safety building can help lower your risk, and possibly your insurance premiums!
THE TIME CRITICAL NATURE OF STROKE IS SHOWN IN THIS NEWSCAST.
Click the image to see a video on how time critical it is for the ambulance to get to a possible patient with a stroke. (We will never have an ambulance dedicated as a mobile stroke unit, but the video explains well how time is so important.) This video addresses response times in N.Y. due to traffic delays; in Princeton, traffic is not as much a factor as distance.
THE TIME CRITICAL NATURE OF A HEART ATTACK IS EXPLAINED WITH THIS VIDEO LINK.
All Massachusett ALS providers are trained to read EKGs, determine the likihood you are having a heart attack, provide life saving (and heart muscle saving) medications on the way to the ED, and treat you appropriately if you degrade in the ambulance. All of Princeton's paramedics are highly experienced and exceed most other agencies' hiring standards.